1.  Beaver says the Yugoslav defenses are formidable.

2.  But Yugoslavia is not Iraq, and the terrain, weather and potency of the Yugoslav defenses poses a significantly tougher challenge.

3.  But this is also being accompanied by a stepped-up Yugoslav defense.

4.  Even the Yugoslav defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, talked of NATO as an instrument for collective security.

5.  The bombers can launch cruise missiles from out over the Adriatic, out of range of the Yugoslav defense systems.

6.  The Yugoslav defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, was shot and killed on Monday as he was eating dinner in a Belgrade soccer club.

7.  Was it because the generals overrated the vaunted Yugoslav defenses or underrated them?

8.  A few hours later, Yugoslav anti-aircraft defense systems fired at NATO planes flying over Belgrade, state news reported.

9.  Early last month, government newspapers in Baghdad reported a visit to Iraq by senior Yugoslav defense officials.